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 XXll ADDITIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. Soon after John Shearran married for the second tilme, Nuppits came and stood at the door ; the new wife did not know him, and he stayed till ' he wor stalled/ She was in fact * fear*d on him.' He then went into the shop and said, * Johnny, what sort'en a woman hast, ta' gotten into t haas P ' Shearran : ' What for, Joseph P ' Nuppits: 'Au^U teU thee what, Johnny; Au do not approve on her ways by far and mich.' The wife said 'she dar not speak, nor hardly stir, he looked so dreadful.' Her husband, however, said, ' When he comes again, give him a handful of meal, and he'll go away and make no disturbance.' He lived in the poor-house. One Peggy, not his sister, must make him a pudding with some of his meal. So she said, ' Joseph, mun we make some saim to it P ' ' Yus,' said he, ' it will be beUer wi' saim.' He ate the nudding, however, while she was making the ' saim,' and then said, ' Naa, tha may have the saim for thy share.' He was sharp enough, it appears, and not without wit, as the fol- lowing anecdote shows. He was much about Woodsome Hall, a sort of voluntary JmL Once he told the master that the mistress had done something at him ; she had, in feet, thrown some boiled milk upon him from a window. And on his subsequently complaining, Mr. Scott said, • When was it, Joseph P ' To whicn he dily replied, * The day it rained milk porridge.' On one occasion he nearly killed Mr. Scott, for whom he used sometimes to plough. Joseph always would go on the wrong side of the horses, and Mr. Scott attemptea to force him to the proper side, when he snatched up a hedging-bill and struck his master on the head, which ever after bore the mark. His end was sad enough. He was found dead at the bottom of a flight of steps which led to the entrance of an inn, now a shop, oppo- site Huddersfield parish church. He had his mouth full of greens, and was supposed to have fallen, or been pushed, down the steps. He was very annoying, and used to go to that house and help himself by clawing the contents of the dishes. His funeral was one of the largest ever known at Almondbury. He was4>uried at the east end of tiie church trhere there was formerly a pathway. NEW BOAD TO FARNLEY-TYAS. When the severe distress of the hand-loom weavers came on, in or about 1826, in order to find employment for tiie operative and manufacturing workmen, various improvements were sug- gested; amongst the rest, the widening of the almost impassable lane leading from Almondbury to Eiwhfield. For this purpose a vote of £15 was passed to build a new culvert at Rushfield Bridge, whjch at that time, I believe, consisted of littie more than a plank. Wmlst the chairman of the meeting, Mr. E Boberts, was entering the vote on his minute paper, as havmg passed unanimously, a voico proceeded from the middle of a dense mass of parishioners to the fol- lowing purport : * To're all a pack o' fooils together ; yo care not yah yo rob the publia Fifteen paands for Rushfield Brigg ! ! Yo're nowt Dut a set o robbers. Au may toil and slave wi* Darby thro' mom to neet a coiHn' to find brass for mi honest debts ; and when Au've done, sich as yoo com and pick mi pocket on it. Fifteen jpaan(^ for